van Emmerik, Corine, Coleman, Rebecca, Lyon, Dawn (2024) Towards a minor sociology of futures: Shifting futures in Mass Observation accounts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Sociology, . ISSN 1440-7833. E-ISSN 1741-2978. (doi:10.1177/14407833241248672) (KAR id:106181)
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Abstract
This article argues for a ‘minor sociology of futures’, which focuses on the significance of futures in and to everyday life by attending to minor shifts in temporal rhythms and patterns that illuminate how futures are imagined and made. We draw on Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of the major and minor, to attend to how major time is ruptured and remade and how minor temporalities can be productive of new relationships with the major and different futures. Our analysis focuses on the intricate and ambivalent relations with futures articulated in written reflections submitted during the early phase (March–November 2020) of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK to a Mass Observation directive on COVID-19 and time. Nourishing a sensitivity to the minor helps us develop a minor sociology that takes futures seriously, which we argue matters in times of uncertainty that stretch beyond the pandemic.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1177/14407833241248672 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | time, temporality, futures, the minor, COVID-19 |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research |
Funders: | British Academy (https://ror.org/0302b4677) |
SWORD Depositor: | JISC Publications Router |
Depositing User: | JISC Publications Router |
Date Deposited: | 07 Jun 2024 13:28 UTC |
Last Modified: | 07 Jun 2024 14:08 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/106181 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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